It isn't the city's popularity that makes it dangerous, but the fact that a very large portion of the city is built below sea level. Essentially, over half the city of New Orleans is a bowl right ...

But since 2010, the U.S. Gulf Coast has seen a sudden burst of rapid sea level rise ... that make up the first line of defense for New Orleans, buffering the levees and barriers behind them.

Settlers who got the best land were able to build only about 10 feet above sea level. Even from the beginning, the city was fighting an uphill battle as it expanded. New Orleans is mostly flat ...

While more flexible pipes has lessened the risk of houses exploding in the future, subsidence has placed most of New Orleans below sea level, and at increased risk from the next storm.

Below sea level. It’s a universally known topographical factoid about the otherwise flat city of New Orleans, and one that got invoked ad nauseam during worldwide media coverage of Hurricane ...

An explosion in the early hours of Sept. 1, 1975 ripped apart this Metairie residence in the Bissonet Plaza area. The blast, which injured five members of the Stephen M. Little family and six of ...

New Orleans and San Francisco -- will be among the regions that could experience flooding in the near future due to land elevation changes combined with sea level rise -- about 4 millimeters per ...

It isn't the city's popularity that makes it dangerous, but the fact that a very large portion of the city is built below sea level. Essentially, over half the city of New Orleans is a bowl right ...